Morning Jolt: Look up today to 'photobomb' Saturn

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Jul 19, 2013 at 12:01 AMJul 19, 2013 at 6:06 PM

NASA’s “First Interplanetary Photobomb” will take place this afternoon. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is near Saturn and will take pictures of the ringed planet and Earth - a very tiny Earth - in the background between 5:27 and 5:42 p.m. EDT. NASA and others are raising awareness about the mission by getting people to look up and photobomb Saturn. The Cassini team is calling it “The Day the Earth Smiled.”

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NASA’s “First Interplanetary Photobomb” will take place this afternoon. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is near Saturn and will take pictures of the ringed planet and Earth - a very tiny Earth - in the background between 5:27 and 5:42 p.m. EDT. NASA and others are raising awareness about the mission by getting people to look up and photobomb Saturn. The Cassini team is calling it “The Day the Earth Smiled.”